The new mobile phones may be very trendy, but their weight and small screen size mean that they were hardly ideally built for ..... purposes

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The new mobile phones may be very trendy, but their weight and small screen size mean that they were hardly ideally built for ..... purposes. (*) utilitarian (*) busy (*) useful (*) humane

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It’s interesting to read this sentence today in 2020 when the vast majority of people have at least one smartphone.

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The new mobile phones may be very trendy, but their weight and small screen size mean that they were hardly ideally built for utilitarian purposes.

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That’s right. Do you know what ‘utilitarian purposes’ are?

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Are they purposes which are useful for people?